R&D policy

The European Commission wants to increase spending on health more than 20-fold and to take a larger role in healthcare policy

Decision to postpone is ‘organisational’ but could be read as a signal to member states and national research ministers to agree on the final details of the research programme before the next EU budget comes into force

After the ravages of COVID-19, the EU’s 2020 science, research and innovation performance report sets out 11 recommendations for the future direction of R&D

There’s more in the pot, but MEPs and research lobbies decry ‘mismatch’ between European Commission’s revised research budget and the post-COVID-19 mountains to be scaled

Plan to infuse recovery money into green, digital and other research initiatives faces challenge from EU fiscal hardliners

More money for research is included in Commission’s €1.85 trillion long-term budget, but MEPs and lobbyists pore over the details to see the potential impact

The EU sets out research plan for switch to more sustainable farming and preservation of biodiversity, as one route out of the COVID-19 recession

Horizon 2020 money to fund switching production lines to make medical products, the development of digital tools and studies of pan-European cohorts

European University Association calls on policy makers to prioritise research and innovation in post-COVID-19 rescue packages - and avoid reproducing some of the effects of 2008 financial crisis